They say I say summary

I have to say first of all that I enjoyed this book. I was surprised at how helpful the templates seemed to be. I thought at first that they would make all writting too similar, but as I tried it I could hear that it would in actuality serve to improve the clarity and content of my writting. Nor for the summary.
The introduction to the book explains the authors' phylosophy about writting templates and gives some examples. They aactually follow their own advise, by placing naysayers, acknowledging the "they say" and inserting their own "say".
The first chapter contains intruction on starting with the "they say" or in other words, entering a discussion in order to give purpose to your writting. The authors give templates for how to present information that has been stated or claimed by others in order to set up your paper as a response to something instead of unsolicited rambling.
The next two chapters explain the difference and the how tos of quoteing and summarizing the "they say" quoteing is a way to present the "they say" word for word, while summarizing is a way to shortly present an idea from someone else without using their exact words. The authors give examples, templates and considerations for choosing how you will present the "they say" in these two ways. It is also important with both of these skills, to give credit where credit is due.
Then the authors move on to how to present the "I say" or your own argument. The authors present the idea that you can repond to the "they say" by either agreeing; "yes", disagreeing; "no", or both; "okay, but".
Next the authors explain the importance of separating the "they say" from your "I say" whether you disagree or agree or both, it is important to add your own insight and information. This is in reality the essance of the "I say"; you have to have something to say.
The authors, in the next chapter, instruct how to plant a naysayer in your paper for arguments sake. You do this by using the template of "skeptics my object....but...." or "One might argue that....However..." this helps to present your evidence and examples in rebuff to potential disagreements the reader might have.
Most important, the authors say, is to emplain "So, what?" They show how to do this by using the sentence "This is important because..." This might seem a simple format, but it is terribly important to explain the need for the argument, instead of simply presenting an argument without a purpose or resson. A written piece must explain to the reader why they should care.
The last few chapters explain how to "tye it together" things like creating a conclusion, letting your own voice come through the writting, and resummerizing everything that you presented.
Until I read this book I didn't realizehow important it is for us to use other peoples words in our writting to set up a conversation instead of just presenting information. I think that the templates given in this book can help tremendeously in accomplishing the dialoge goal that we have been studying.